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About Jonathan Aird
Sure, I could climb high in a tree, or go to Skye on my holiday. I could be happy. All I really want is the excitement of first hearing The Byrds, the amazement of decades of Dylan's music, or the thrill of seeing a band like The Long Ryders live. That's not much to ask, is it?
Features

Dream Team Double Header – Emma Swift and The Dears

September 16, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Wow, how time flies – d’ya’know that it’s been two years since the last drop of Dream Team Double Header? How the heck did that happen? So long, in fact, that some readers, the newer ones […]

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Bill Scorzari “Cant’ Break This Fall” – not about the Autumn

September 16, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Cant’ Break This Fall‘ isn’t about the change of the seasons, nor is it a critique of Mark E. Smith’s perpetually changing band.  And yet, it certainly has a feel to it that could be described […]

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Mindy Murray “The Trenton Local” – I hear that train a-comin’

September 15, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Mass transit is not some sort of luxury – it’s a necessity for millions of people in order to go about their daily lives.  Maybe they can’t afford a car, maybe for some reason they are […]

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Jess Jocoy “Cul-De-Sac Kid” – Country enough for ya?

September 15, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Nashville-based singer-songwriter Jess Jocoy’s new album is out on the 25th of October, and this is its title song. It finds Jess Jocoy questioning her place in the modern Country scene – does she need to […]

Tracks

Peter Stampfel “Cognitive Behavioural Therapy” – let’s look at it this way

September 12, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Peter Stampfel – he of the Fugs and the Holy Modal Rounders – has a new and, hey no real surprise, rather unusual new album coming out.  It’s called “Song Shards: Soul Jingles, Stoic Jingles, Vintage […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

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Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Number 7 – Johnny Cash “American Recordings”

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With three great albums already unveiled, we now reach Number 7 in our countdown of the top 10 americana albums ever. Andrew Frolish gives his assessment of the extraordinary work that reignited Johnny Cash’s career and built on […]

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